[B-Greek] historical present in LUKE
Mark Goodacre
goodacre at gmail.com
Sun Oct 9 10:10:56 EDT 2005
On 10/9/05, bitan buth <ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> Luke actually has a few more historical presents:
> Luke 7:40, 8:49, 11:37, 11:45.
> Only one, 8:49, is parallel to Mark (close but not an exact quote)
> and there are another 13 in Acts,
There's also 24.12, when Peter goes to Jesus' tomb, KAI PARAKUYAS
BLEPEI TA OQONIA MONA. I've always thought that Luke's more sparing
use of the historic present makes it all the more striking and
dramatic here, "And you know what? He is looking at the burial
cloths alone". It's one of the interesting links between Luke and
John too, of course -- John 20.5, KAI PARAKUYAS BLEPEI KEIMENA TA
OQONIA .
> The above stylistic evidence is another thread that points to
> Luke using a source that was not Mark, a shared source with our Mark.
> Mark would have added his own layer of historic presents to this shared
> source.
> See Buth-Kvasnica, on parable of vineyard, in Notley, ed.,
> forthcoming Brill, 2005, supposedly in time for SBL.
I look forward to seeing the article. My own tendency is to be
sceptical of source-critical arguments that stress a given
evangelist's failure to include a given trait in a putative source,
e.g. cf. Delbert Burkett's recent book that does a lot with this kind
of argument.
With best wishes
Mark
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